Them Before Us

In the US, IVF clinics report 75–80% of patients want a girl. Adoptive parents are willing to pay more for daughters. Feminism is now teaching women to hate men from the time of infancy. The world needs more strong men, not less.

The terrible intersection between #MothersBoyfriend and #Surrogacy - A Texas mother wanted more children, so her husband decided her teenage daughter would have them for her. - He called it "surrogacy." Prosecutors say Mom was in the room for the first assault and helped plan the pregnancy. - Mom faked her own pregnancy, even staging a trip to the hospital, and took the baby girl home as her own. - The teen went on to have several more of his children. She said it felt like a job: she had to get pregnant for her mother. - One baby, Ava, was raised by her grandmother as her daughter. - At 12, Ava was abused by the same man: her own father. - Prosecutors say Mom directed at least one encounter, paid Ava afterward, and told her to keep quiet. - He's serving life. Mom is jailed on $5 million bond for child trafficking and continuous abuse of a child. When we bend marriage and family to serve adults, we often break children in the process. click2houston.com/news/local…

A 3 day old fertilized egg is not an infant and i find it morally bankrupt to conflate the two. All I keep hearing you say is that you find it an affront against God to have humans making the choice instead of God, because the survival rate is identical.

A 20-year study of a million children found that kids conceived by IVF frozen embryo transfer had double the cancer rate. 84% of US IVF transfers now use frozen embryos. Danish researchers followed every child born in Denmark from 1996 to 2012 for up to 20 years. The study was published in JAMA last week. Children conceived without assisted reproduction developed cancer at 18.3 per 100,000 per year. After frozen embryo transfer, the rate was 41.1. After ICSI, where a single sperm is injected directly into the egg, it was 27.9. After frozen transfer, leukemia ran more than twice as high. The only method that showed no increase was a fresh embryo, never frozen, created by placing eggs and sperm together in a dish. That version is now the exception. In 2021, 84% of US IVF transfers used frozen embryos and 78% used ICSI, according to the CDC. Compared with children of women with a history of infertility who conceived without treatment, the frozen embryo risk stayed at more than double. In the authors' words, the results suggest "procedure-related, rather than infertility-related, factors." This is not the first time the pattern has shown up. A 2019 JAMA study of the same Danish children at 11 years found it too. A 2022 study of 2.3 million children in Taiwan found those conceived through assisted reproduction had 58% higher cancer risk, "mainly owing to leukemia and hepatic tumor." The absolute risk is small, and most of these children will never get cancer. The Danish children were conceived with older freezing methods, and the authors warn the results "may differ for contemporary protocols." Nobody yet has long-term data on IVF as it is done today. Children conceived with today's methods won't have 20 years of data until the 2040s, so today's IVF children are, in effect, the trial. Parents deserve to hear these numbers before they sign the consent form, because their child is the one who will carry the risk. doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.18…

Imagine a future with more healthy babies, unencumbered by genetic disease. Wired Health highlighted how Orchid is making that future possible today.

Sam is happy...but the child lost his genetic mother and was separated from birth mom at birth.

Altman and his partner did not "have a baby." They bought a baby.

Jimmy Fallon asks Sam Altman if he uses ChatGPT to raise the baby he has with his husband, and his answer is hilarious Jimmy Fallon: “You, you and your husband just had a baby. Congratulations, yeah. How old? How old is the baby?” Sam Altman: “Eight month old?” Jimmy Fallon: “Are you loving him?” Sam Altman: “So much. I have no non-cliched thing to say, but it is by far so much better than anything anyone tells you. I just so incredibly happy.” Jimmy Fallon: “And do you use ChatGPT when, when raising your baby?” Sam Altman: “I do. I mean I feel kind of bad about it because I, we have this like genius level at everything, intelligence sitting there like waiting to unravel the mysteries of humanity.” “And I'm like, why my kid stop dropping his pizza on the floor and laughing?” “So I feel like I'm not asking a good enough question.” “But it is, I don't know. I cannot imagine having gone through like figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT. Clearly people did it for a long time, no problem.”

Euphemism Translator: Congratulations to our September 2026 recipients, who received a grant to discover and destroy (or eternally freeze) any embryo that shares their living daughter's genetic condition. Chelsea and Dayton already have a two-year-old, Chase, who has Cystic Fibrosis, a life they love, a child they treasure. But when considering a sibling, they decided a child like Chase was no longer acceptable. So they will create several embryos in a lab, test each for the gene Chase carries, and mark the affected ones as undesirable. Baby Quest is funding the selection. The ones who pass the test will be told, one day, about "all the people who helped bring them into our lives" and not about the brothers and sisters who were graded and rejected for having the same condition as the adorable child in the photo. This is eugenics with a smiling family at sunset. The message to Chase, eventually, is unavoidable: we loved you, but we made sure your sibling wouldn't be you.

Her parents chose identity and romance above her well-being and what she deserved. #thembeforeus